{"id":2269,"date":"2015-07-08T12:34:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2015-07-08T12:34:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:34:12","slug":"lizard-squad-member-who-ruined-your-holiday-gaming-convicted-gets-a-stern-finger-wagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=2269","title":{"rendered":"Lizard Squad member who ruined your holiday gaming convicted, gets a stern finger-wagging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember how over the holidays this last year you couldn\u2019t get on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network? One of the guys\u00a0responsible, Julius Kivimaki, was taken in for the crime and has now been found guilty on a number of counts.<\/p>\n

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That number is upwards of 50,000. 50,700 counts of cyber-crime, including counts of fraud, harassment,\u00a0data breaches, and violation of company secrets.<\/p>\n

The hefty sentence accompanying that is a two year suspended sentence and an order to assist in the \u201cfight against cyber crime.\u201d Kivimaki will not be going to prison.<\/p>\n

This is likely, at least in part, because he\u2019s not yet 18. This light punishment is despite the fact\u00a0he\u2019s somewhat of a veteran when it comes to this stuff. According to security expert Brian Krebs, Kivimaki was arrested in 2013 on suspicion of running a 60,000 computer botnet and was apparently found in possession of 3,000 stolen credit card numbers. That\u2019s in addition to costing Microsoft and Sony potentially millions of dollars for the weeks-long outage.<\/p>\n

If Kivimaki is indeed helping authorities, then the light sentence may be justified, but such a light sentence \u2013 hardly even a slap on the wrist \u2013 doesn\u2019t send a very strong message to other members of Lizard Squad and any similar groups that might pop up.<\/p>\n

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SOURCE<\/span> KREBS ON SECURITY<\/a>, DAILY DOT<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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